OT: What are the 10 Worst College Football Coach Hiring Decisions of the 21st Century?
According Yahoo's Pat Forde's 100 minute Twitter session with 366 voters, the answers are:
10. Bill Callahan - Nebraska
9. Ron Turner - Florida International
8. Paul Pasqualoni - Connecticut
7. Greg Robinson - Syracuse
6. Mike Locksley - New Mexico
5. Ellis Johnson - Southern Mississippi
4. Derek Dooley - Tennessee
3. Lane Kiffin - USC
2. Steve Kragthorpe - Louisville
and finally...
1. Rich Rodriguez - Michigan
Entire article below. Your thoughts?
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--forde-yard-dash--judging-lane-kiffi…
October 1st, 2013 at 8:45 PM ^
October 1st, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
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...Actually, some of those were head scratchers at the time of the hire, but some of them were pretty well received, if my memory serves correct. I would have to say that Callahan would be higher than that. Nebraska kind of got what it deserved when they fired a dude for going 9-3.
October 1st, 2013 at 8:45 PM ^
October 1st, 2013 at 8:46 PM ^
1b Gerg Robinson
October 1st, 2013 at 8:47 PM ^
October 1st, 2013 at 8:47 PM ^
October 1st, 2013 at 8:48 PM ^
/98
October 1st, 2013 at 8:48 PM ^
October 1st, 2013 at 8:50 PM ^
If you don't mind terribly, please do the mods a favor and focus the discussion on just how smooth the Mike Locksley - Bob Davie transition has been for the Lobos so far.
October 1st, 2013 at 9:10 PM ^
FIRE LSA-ROD
October 1st, 2013 at 9:16 PM ^
Yeah! I mean, who capitalizes every word in the title of their posts? Sick'em!
October 1st, 2013 at 8:55 PM ^
At least Tennessee upgraded with the Dooley hire.
October 1st, 2013 at 8:56 PM ^
RichRod and Gerg ought to be 1a and 1b. Those two were both a disaster together.
October 1st, 2013 at 8:58 PM ^
I would have to add Kiffin again with Tennessee!!
October 1st, 2013 at 9:01 PM ^
Agree 100%. I could tell he was not a good fit from day one.
October 1st, 2013 at 9:09 PM ^
but how could you tell he wasn't a good fit from day one?
October 1st, 2013 at 9:12 PM ^
October 1st, 2013 at 9:13 PM ^
Obvs.
October 1st, 2013 at 9:04 PM ^
John L Smith at Arkansas. I think he was only interim but still ...
October 1st, 2013 at 9:14 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:33 AM ^
It is really hard to believe they care enough about football to call anything they do a bad hire.
October 1st, 2013 at 9:04 PM ^
October 1st, 2013 at 10:48 PM ^
No one cares enough about State for their hires to count.
October 1st, 2013 at 10:50 PM ^
To get really technical, Bobby Williams was a 20th-century hire, and frankly when they hired John LLLLLLL (as Wojo used to hilariously call him) nobody noticed any difference in the Sparty program.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:47 AM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:46 AM ^
Correct, which is why, to get technical, he was hired in the 20th century, since 2000 is the last year of the 20th, not the first year of the 21st.
October 1st, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^
Pretty much on point. Lane Kiffin would be the only challenge to RR IMO given the prestige of the position and epic fail, but given that Lane took over with sanctions and the best an RR apologist can come up with is the bare cupboard meme, RR at #1 is probably right.
October 1st, 2013 at 9:07 PM ^
I'll tell you man, when those RR-apologists get going, it gets me going! That man brought Michigan down to epic lows for three years and yet people still "Wish him well in Arizona:]" and such. Guess what?! I don't!
October 1st, 2013 at 9:17 PM ^
I was an RR apologist the first 2 years. I claimed he didn't have the necessary horses in year 1, and the Denard love fest in year two led me to believe he could just fix the defense to mediocre level by year 3 and we would be good. I was very wrong. He almost completely igonored aspects of the game outside of offense, and was unwilling to adapt to different systems, defenses, talent of his players, etc.
October 1st, 2013 at 10:44 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:41 AM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 4:18 PM ^
Year two was actually the Tate Forcier love fest.
October 1st, 2013 at 9:37 PM ^
We wish him well because by all accounts he seemed like a decent human being who just didn't work out. I'm not going to curse him and send him bad wishes over a game. It's not like he was some monster out to destroy Michigan football.
We went to a decent bowl game in his third year. Was Lloyd Carr setting the world on fire? Did RichRod lose to App State at home with a senior laden preseason #5 team? Lloyd apologists are even worse. They refuse to accept the fact that this guy actively subverted his successor and created a division within the AD.
October 1st, 2013 at 11:08 PM ^
October 1st, 2013 at 11:35 PM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 12:28 AM ^
How is it treason to go against arguably the #1 worst hire in college footbal? Maybe he saw what was coming a lot sooner than clowns like you who are still trying to defend RR.
October 2nd, 2013 at 12:41 AM ^
Or maybe he was just pissed that the network of nepotism wasn't getting continued? Either way, making what might not have been a great situation into a worse one instead of providing support is in no way a defensible action.
October 2nd, 2013 at 7:29 AM ^
Josh Groban.
Bah-Bye, you don't belong here.
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:02 AM ^
If Lloyd had his first wish, DeBord would be at the number one spot instead of RR. Pull your head out of your ass and think clearly.
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:17 PM ^
Subversion. Lloyd committed treason against the programYou make it sound like this is a fact, like the sky being blue. You don't know that it is.
October 2nd, 2013 at 12:40 AM ^
I just hate the ill will on this blog by ass clowns who constantly want to bash RR or say 'fuck him, I hope he fails'. The guy was not some monster who sought to destroy the program or something. It's not like he was in charge of disaster relief and utterly failed cauing loss of life -- the guy sucked at one coaching job. Say "I wish him well going forward but I'm glad he's not Michigan's coach". There's no need to constantly bash the guy. And when he's going to constantly be bashed, yeah people are going to bring up other's actions as a defense to his character. "Michigan men" (whatever that terms means [only thing I hate more than 'fergodssake']) don't act the way Lloyd did just for not getting his way. Tough losses are an understatement.
When the RR haters give it a rest, so will I.
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:08 AM ^
Totally agree. RR is/was an offensive coordinator and nothing more, who happened upon some good luck at WVA to get paired up with decent defensive coordinators. This was all exposed when he came here but no one can deny he tried his best while here. He wanted the same thing we did which was for Michigan to succeed.
I will always root for the man. He tried to help us, he just failed but his intentions were always honorable.
October 2nd, 2013 at 7:22 AM ^
October 2nd, 2013 at 9:12 AM ^
What are ass clowns? I've never seen clowns jumping around on any ass that I've ever seen. Or are they actually buttcheeks painted with clown paint with an orange nose jammed into the anus? I'm confused.
October 2nd, 2013 at 11:56 AM ^
LIke all coaches, Lloyd Carr had his shortcomings and blind spots. I agree that the program was ossified and sputtering a bit by the end of his tenure.
To say he was a joke and that he didn't have anything to do with the NC in '97 is idiotic, delusional, and profoundly ignorant, and there is a roster of players from that squad that would tell you so to your face.
October 2nd, 2013 at 6:56 PM ^
Amen!
October 2nd, 2013 at 8:20 PM ^
Given that we've only won one national title in 60 years, are you really going to trash the one and only M coach who won it?
Not to mention that Carr was Gary Moeller's DC and secondary coach, so I'm sure he played a major role in Woodson's recruitment.